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Amazon Goes Back to the Future
With ‘NoSQL’ Database By Caleb Garling, Posted on January 19, 2012 |
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How Google Spawned The 384-Chip
Server By Cade Metz, Posted on January 19, 2012 |
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The secret to getting rich in
2012: Open APIs Developers need to know the right lingo By Matt Asay, Posted on 30th December 2011 |
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Ask
Slashdot: Open Vs. Closed-Source For a Start-Up By Slashdot, Posted on December 11 |
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What
Moore’s Law Means for the Future of the Cloud By Jon Stokes, Posted on December 10 |
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IT Minds Quest for ‘Holy Grail’
of Data-Center Metrics By Eric Smalley, Posted on December 9, 2011 |
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Why we need even more programming
languages Upgrading existing, popular languages to support new features is a lot harder than you might think By Neil McAllister, Posted on December 08, 2011 |
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NoSQL hopeful cozies up to Hadoop
data-muncher Big data love-in By Gavin Clarke, Posted on 2nd December 2011 |
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Java tops for hackers, warns
Microsoft Apply patches to known holes By Gavin Clarke, Posted on 2nd December 2011 |
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Apache: Old, out of touch, but
worth it... GitHub who? By Matt Asay, Posted On 2nd December 2011 |
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Hub and spoke gives data
analytics a new spin More tools in the warehouse By Timothy Prickett Morgan, Posted on 28th November 2011 |
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Ubuntu tells dumped CouchDB: It's
not you, it's me Cloud storage dalliance is over By Gavin Clarke, Posted on 25th November 2011 |
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Amazon cloud rival adds object
storage service Joyent: Expect petabytes and petabytes of storage By Chris Mellor, Posted 25th November 2011 |
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What
Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, And SAP Don't Tell Customers By Matt Rosoff Posted November 19, 2011 |
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Man
Survives Steve Ballmer’s Flying Chair To Build ’21st Century Linux’ By Cade Metz, Posted November 18, 2011 |
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Tech sugar daddies shovel
millions into Hadoop war Who will flash the most cloud cash? By Matt Asay Posted on 11th November 2011 |
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Hadoop: Making Linux gobble big
data Growing penguins need petabytes to feast on By Timothy Prickett Morgan Posted on 9th November 2011 |
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Data
retention, FOI and the storage budget By Lucy Sherriff Posted on 9th November 2011 |
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Why
aren't you using FreeBSD? FreeBSD is a free, fast, stable, feature-rich operating system. If you've never looked into it before, you should By Paul Venezia, Posted November 07, 2011 |
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Conquering Information Overload By Sharon Ann Holgate Posted November 04, 2011 |
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A File is Not a File:
Understanding the I/O Behavior of Apple Desktop Applications (PDF) By Tyler Harter, Chris Dragga, Michael Vaughn, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau Special Interest Group on Operating Systems Posted October 23-26, 2011 |
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The
Quest for the Holy Grail of Storage … RAM Cloud By Jon Stokes, Posted October 19, 2011 |
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VMware profits more than double
in Q3 Looks like Microsoft, slurps cash like Microsoft By Timothy Prickett Morgan, Posted. 18th October 2011 |
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Memory Trick Could Speed Up the
Web Storing information on volatile memory instead of hard disks could vastly speed up computing, researchers say. By Neil Savage, Monday, October 17, 2011 |
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Google Engineer Accidently Shares
His Internal Memo About Google + Platform By John Furrier, Posted October 12th, 2011 |
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Benioff's Private Cloud Bluster:
Can It Last? Salesforce CEO Benioff won't be stopped by Oracle CEO Ellison, as demonstrated by the Oracle OpenWorld keynote spat. Will Benioff's customers insist he stop the private cloud denial? By Laurianne McLaughlin, October 06, 2011 |
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Oracle’s Larry Ellison finally
puts his head in the cloud Sean Ludwig, October 6, 2011 |
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The Battle for the Government As governments all over the world move their IT to the cloud, they are becoming some of Google and Microsoft's most coveted customers. By Lee Gomes Wednesday, October 5, 2011 |
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Deduplication: a power-hungry way
to streamline storage Data wants to stay single By Trevor Potts Posted 6th October 2011 |
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What is a File? (PDF) By Richard Harper, Eno Thereska, Sian Lindley, Richard Banks, Phil Gosset, William Odom, Gavin Smyth, and Eryn Whitworth Posted 1 October 2011 |
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Oracle accuses Autonomy chief of
telling 'whopper' 'Either Mr Lynch has a very poor memory or he’s lying' By Chris Mellor, Posted 29th September 2011 10:10 GMT Autonomy slams Oracle's 'Lynch tells whoppers' claim 'They seem a little confused' By Chris Mellor, Posted 29th September 2011 12:54 GMT |
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A DNA Tower of Babel As more and more people's genomes are decoded, we need better ways to share and understand the data. By David Ewing Duncan, Posted September 23, 2011 |
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Red Hat swells sales and profits
in fiscal Q2 So much Unix to eat, so little time By Timothy Prickett Morgan, 22nd September 2011 |
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Trouble on the high seas for
MySQL? New commercial extensions worry MySQL community By Brian Proffitt , September 19, 2011 |
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Google Native Client: The web of
the future - or the past? This time, it's Mozilla v Google By Cade Metz in San Francisco, Posted on 12th September 2011 |
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A New and Improved Moore's Law Under "Koomey's law," it's efficiency, not power, that doubles every year and a half. By Kate Greene, Posted on September 12, 2011 |
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Will Oracle or IBM Start a
Bidding War with HP over Autonomy? By Dave Kellogg, Posted on August 21, 2011 |
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IBM borgs UK 'big data' outfit Big Blue echoes HP (The New Big Blue) By Cade Metz in San Francisco, Posted 31st August 2011 |
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Hits keep on coming: HP buys
Autonomy for $11bn cash Brit techbiz poster-boy Autonomous no more By John Oates, 19th August 2011 |
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Why Accenture’s CTO made the move
to NoSQL startup CEO By Derrick Harris Aug. 18, 2011 |
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'Major' C++ revision receives
standards blessing Mind your language By Gavin Clarke, 15th August 2011 17:20 GMT |
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Cloudera
rallies tech troops behind Hadoop Stuffed elephants get certified By Cade Metz in San Francisco, 11th August 2011 17:58 GMT |
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ERP
Software Gets a Second Life in the Cloud Manufacturers can now be more flexible in the way they use planning software—a tool that's been cumbersome and expensive in the past. By Cindy Waxer, Thursday, July 14, 2011 |
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Database high priest mud-wrestles
Facebook Rubbishes MySQL. Bitchslaps NoSQL. By Cade Metz, 13th July 2011 21:11 GMT |
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Stonebraker
trapped in Stonebraker ‘fate worse than death’ by Domas Mituzas, Posted on July 8, 2011 |
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Facebook
trapped in MySQL ‘fate worse than death’ By Derrick Harris Jul. 7, 2011 |
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Open Source Business Models,
Revisited By Dave Kellogg,, Posted on June 19, 2011 |
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Oracle seeks 'billions' with
Google Android suit 'That's right. Billions. Tell the world. Billions' By Cade Metz at Friday 17 Jun 2011 17:41 |
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Rise of the "Hybrid" Mobile App Mobile apps that use Web technologies are easier to build and deploy on multiple platforms. By Christopher Mims, Friday, June 17, 2011 |
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Oracle
and Itanic: Tech's nastiest ever row? HP vs Oracle And the pig enjoys it... By Andrew Orlowski at Friday 17 Jun 2011 04:49 |
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HP dubs Oracle 'bitter
antagonist' in Itanic spat HP vs Oracle Anti-Hurd mentality By Timothy Prickett Morgan at Thursday 16 Jun 2011 21:44 |
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How Cisco's CIO Measures
Performance Cisco employees rely on Cisco's IT, yet how does the CIO measure the value of IT? By Sean Michael Kerner, Posted on June 14, 2011 |
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Xeround reinvents MySQL atop
Amazon cloud NoSQL. Without the No By Timothy Prickett Morgan at Tuesday 14 Jun 2011 |
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Welcome to a Faster Web The first commercial deployment of SPDY, a protocol designed by Google to make websites faster, launches today. By Erica Naone, Posted on Monday, June 13, 2011 |
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Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo Team
Up to Advance Semantic Web A push to add meaning to Web pages to aid search could also enable other kinds of intelligent web apps. By Tom Simonite, Friday, June 10, 2011 |
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MongoDB
daddy: My baby beats Google BigTable The web is built on objects. Not tables By Cade Metz at Wednesday 25 May 2011 |
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Software AG Buys Terracotta To
Boost In-Memory, Cloud Offerings by Robin Wauters on May 23, 2011 |
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When is a database not so
relational? Deep dive Storage in the cloud By Philip Howard at Tuesday 17 May 2011 |
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Autonomy Buys Iron Mountain’s
Digital Archiving, Online Backup Business For $380M by Robin Wauters on May 16, 2011 |
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Internet Search: The Reality of
Link-Buying and Comment Spam By Dave Kellogg, Posted on May 13, 2011 |
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Oracle: Quit messin' and marry
Hadoop! Open...and Shut Why Larry should pop the question By Matt Asay at Wednesday 11 May 2011 |
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Alpine Data Labs Scores $7.5
Million To Help Companies Analyze Troves Of Data by Robin Wauters on May 11, 2011 |
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The Open Source Software Paradox By Dave Kellogg, Posted on May 10, 2011 |
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Facebook fails webmail tests Nearly as bad as Hushmail By John Oates, Posted 5th May 2011 |
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Apps to stop data breaches are
too complicated to use By Kevin Fogarty, Posted 4th May, 2011 |
| Market Research Media | NoSQL
Market Forecast 2011-2015 by admin Revised , Updated March, 2011 |
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CouchOne
and Membase Merge To Form NoSQL Powerhouse Comprehensive, end to end NoSQL Open Source solution By Alan Shimel on Tue, 02/08/11 - 12:12am. |
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Roundup
of Cloud Computing Forecasts and Market Estimates, 2011 by Louis Columbus, January 1, 2011 |
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Surprise:
44% Of Business IT Pros Never Heard Of NoSQL They should. It's fast, resilient, and often cheaper than conventional databases. Plus, it's the backbone of many Web 2.0 sites. By Charles Babcock, September 18, 2010 |
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Marten Mickos says the cloud
won't kill open source Even with the code hidden, it needs to remain open says the former MySQL CEO By Source Seeker on Wed, 06/16/10 |
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The Database Tea Party: The NoSQL
Movement By Dave Kellogg, Posted on February 24, 2010 |
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Researchers tout 'wimpy nodes'
for Net computing By Stephen Shankland October 16, 2009 |
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Relational database pioneer says
technology is obsolete Michael Stonebraker blogs not to praise RDBMSes but to bury them By Eric Lai, Posted on September 6, 2007 |
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The
5 Minute Rule for Trading Memory for Disk Accesses and the 5 Byte Rule
for Trading Memory for CPU Time By Jim Gray and Franco Putzolu, Published May, 1985 |
